MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
for immediate release: Friday, April 4, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
Again, Archbishop John Nienstedt’s been caught being deceptive, claiming to have “offered” information about predator priests to the police while not having done so.
Twin Cities Catholics and citizens deserve straight answers but we doubt they’ll get them. Nienstedt should obviously publicly rebuke and sack any and all of his staff who are responsible for this deceit.
“Beginning, last week. . .we offered the police the opportunity to review those (predators’) files,” Nienstedt’s staff claimed. But they refused to provide a list of the 50 police agencies they said they’d contacted. And 11 out of 12 agencies called by MPR News said they had no record of any contacts with the archdiocese in the past two weeks.
New Prague Police Chief Mark Vosejpka did talk to one of Nienstedt’s lawyers. He asked to have the information sent to him, but Nienstedt’s lawyer told Vosejpka to call him back later.
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